PrintDocument to PDF (via PDFcreator)

Petr

Hi Gurus,

I have an application which manages some contracts.

I have the option of Printing these contracts.

For that I use PrintDocument, for preview PrintPreview.

I have a PDFcreator installed on my computer (and on the client's cumputers too).

It's fine when I show the printpreview and save it as PDF via PDFcreator.

But I would like to save the contract to PDF programmatically.

I heard it's possible to do with the PDFcreator, but after some googling couldn't find how..

I couldn't find any proper manual or documentation for pdf creator even on sourceforge.

Could you tell me how to save printdocument to PDF format, please??

Thank you very much :-)

Petr

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riyan marge11y ago
Check this simple PDF Creator...http://csharp.net-informations.com/file/create-pdf.htm

Riyan
Frogleg15y ago
Have a look at PDFSharp or iTextSharp, this may be what you are looking for
http://www.pdfsharp.com/PDFsharp/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Petr15y ago
This is great, thanks.

But stil, it brings uo the pdfcreator menu and options. I would like to skip that and save the printdocument as pdf directly..

Thank you

Petr
Frogleg15y ago
Try this
using System.Drawing.Printing;
string pdfPrinter;//pdfcreator name
in button event
{
string strDefaultPrinter = printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName;
foreach (String strPrinter in PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters)
{
if (strPrinter.Contains("PDF"))
{
pdfPrinter = strPrinter;
}
}
printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = pdfPrinter;

}